‘s Foreign Minister has married her long-time partner in a quiet ceremony in her home state of South .
Penny Wong, 55, exchanged vows with Sophie Allouache who she has been in a relationship with since 2006 at Bird in Hand Winery in the Adelaide Hills on Saturday.
The couple share two young daughters Alexandra, 11, and Hannah, eight.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and newly engaged girlfriend Jodie Haydon were also in attendance after flying in on his RAAF plane on Friday, as were Health Minister Mark Butler and former SA Premier Jay Whetherill.
Senator Wong has long been an advocate for same-sex marriage and broke down in tears when ns voted to legalise the union in 2017.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has married Sophie Allouache in Adelaide and holding a reception at the Bird in Hand Winery with Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon, Mark Butler and Jay Whetherill in attendance (pictured together previously)
The passing of same-sex marriage laws was a turbulent period for Senator Wong.
She condemned the toxic debate surrounding the 2017 plebiscite on whether should allow same-sex unions – held under Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull – as an ‘expensive stunt’.
However, when ns voted overwhelmingly to approve such marriages she wept with joy.
‘I hope that everyone in this parliament has heard the resounding voice of the n people today, a mandate for change, a mandate for equality,’ she said.
‘Because it is time.
‘Thank you for standing up for fairness, thank you for standing up for equality. Thank you for standing up for our families.’
Senator Wong was a strong campaigner for same-sex marriage and broke down in tears when it was legalised in 2017
Seven years earlier, Senator Wong had controversially stuck to what was then Labor’s policy maintaining that marriage was an institution between a man and a woman.
‘On the issue of marriage I think the reality is there is a cultural, religious, historical view around that which we have to respect,’ she said.
Senator Wong publicly came out as gay in 2002, shortly after she was elected to the Senate although her sexuality was not a secret to friends and family.
Ms Allouache, who works as public servant in Adelaide and is seven years younger than the Senator Wong, carried and gave birth to the couple’s daughters Alexandra and Hannah after undergoing IVF.